Nova Scotia!

A word of warning: This post is full of vacation pics. I'm just saying.

We had a wonderful time in Nova Scotia! It's stunningly beautiful, clean and full of friendly people. Even the weather cooperated...more or less. Our flight to Halifax was delayed due to fog in Halifax and at one point the captain came out of the cockpit and I heard him talking to the flight attendant and saying something that sounded like "Well, we've got plenty of gas". I was afraid we'd have to circle for a couple of hours (bad) or divert to another airport (worse), but he had a go at the approach and made it in...hooray!

The weather was foggy and drizzly but the temps were fairly mild. The day after our arrival, we headed out in the rental car along the south shore toward Peggy's Cove. It was foggy, but even this was an improvement from when we started out:

Peggy's Cove is a quaint little fishing village built right on the coast and it's a big tourist attraction. We were there during the week and off-season, so it wasn't crowded at all. The lighthouse is the big attraction.

You can't go in the lighthouse, but it's still neat to look at. There's also lots of rough surf and signs warning of the dangers of going too close. They didn't have to tell me twice; this picture is not as close as it looks.

We had lunch that day at a little pub called The Knot. My guy decided he wanted mussels, so he got a large order. Two pounds worth. Before:

And after:

I tried a couple and discovered that mussels are not my thing. I was happy to leave them to him.

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Another pretty little town along the coast, Mahone Bay:

We stayed in Dartmouth, across the harbour from Halifax, and rode the ferry over. This gal is in the ferry terminal on the Dartmouth side. Her name is Elizabeth and she was a gift to Halifax from Norfolk, VA, their sister city. The blue and white in her hair represent the sea, her stole is the Halifax tartan, and her tail flipper is, of course, the maple leaf. I thought she was neat.

I took my stitching with me and had the sense to a) not take sharp scissors and b) not take scissors that I would be heartbroken if I lost. Which was a good thing because the security folks at Halifax airport took the nail scissors that I've carried all over the U.S. along with a pair of fold-up scissors that ditto and that I can't imagine would be any kind of a threat to anybody, except maybe to break a nail trying to get the darn things unfolded. Neither was of any significant value, however, and the stitching scissors I had were blunt so those made it through. I stitched on one of Prairie Schooler's samplers on the plane but didn't take a pic.

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Snow is in the forecast for the weekend (nooooo!) so staying in and stitching sounds like a good thing!